Cooperation for Sustainable Developments in Drylands

About me

  • Darius Görgen
  • B.A. Political Sciences & B.Sc. Geography @University of Marburg
  • M.Sc. thesis: Predicting violent conflict induced by environmental changes
  • Passionate about OpenSource, OpenData, OpenScience with R and Python
  • slides @https://github.com/goergen95/clca

What am I going to talk about?

  • ICARDA’s project on conservation agriculture

  • some basics of remote sensing

  • exploring available data sets

  • outline the work to be done

Research project

  • ongoing ICARDA project (2018 - 2022) financed by an IFAD grant of 2.5 Mio. USD

  • implementation of conservation agriculture practices to increase water use efficiency, soil protection and income

  • ICARDA expressed interest in using RS technologies for ongoing M&E of key indicators of the project

  • in the future: modeling of impacts on water balance and biomass productivity on water basin scale

Conservation agriculture (CA)

Conservation Agriculture according to FAO adapted from FAO (2017)

Basics of Remote Sensing

Source: Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing & Processing

Source: NASA

Source: Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing & Processing

Source: ESA

Source: Saab (2003)

Source: USGS

Source: ESA

  • spectral resolution
  • spatial resolution
  • temporal resolution

WaPOR Datasets

Source: FAO WaPOR

Source: FAO (2020)

Source: FAO (2020)

Area of Interest

Precipitation Analysis

Water Productivity Analysis